Monday, December 09, 2019

Book Notes: History Today's Best of 2019


The lively British history mag/website History Today has a crowd of British historians choosing their favourite (mostly but not necessarily British) histories of 2019.

Update:  Helen Webberley from Melbourne Auz endorses one of the recommended titles:
Robert Poole’s Peterloo: an English Uprising (Oxford) was excellent.

I don’t know if this is the definitive account of Peterloo, because I haven’t read any other, but I do know that the book’s place in my historical thinking about British politics and society will be long-lasting.
Her blog post on Peterloo is here 
 
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